According to a new study, even those who have a tendency to think conventionally like accountants or insurance adjusters, can be creative if they can view emotionally charged circumstances from a different perspective. In a series of trials, researchers discovered that “emotional reappraisal” helped conventional thinkers–those who score poorly on being open to new experiences and ideas–come up with more original ideas than their peers. This entails looking at a situation through a different emotional lens, such as attempting to find the neutral or hopeful aspects of an occurrence that makes you angry. The study, published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, indicates that creativity is something that can be trained. For the study, Zhu and co-authors Chris Bauman and Maia Young from University of California, Irvine, conducted a survey and two similar experiments with three different sets of people. The first survey of 279 college students revealed that people who tended to be more creative, ranking high on openness to new ideas, also tended to practice emotional reappraisal regularly.